Overall I'm happy with the glut of drivers as it might mean more F1 drivers in WEC cars looking nothing special compared to guys like Dumas, Lotterer, Lapierre etc.
No
Martin Whitmarsh was McLaren team principal for four years before Boulier turned up
I am aware of that. It's not like you could miss the friendly skeleton as he seemed to be attached to the BBC presenters at every race. What I was saying was that after getting rid of MW they brought EB in as Ron was standing in at the time and from what Alonso has said previously his problem with Mclaren was with Ron.
This Japanese GP looks like it's going to be a bit of fail...
It certainly seems to be a fail
Hope Nico has enough grease on his steering wheel to keep it waterproof
It's not called grease hora, it's called 'foreign substance'
Bbc pleass show more Japanese cuties dammit!
Bugger
Would have good to see Alonso
They all seem to be getting frustrated, they all look like the want to nail it now. Could be carnage when they finally let them go
This is a ****ing joke
let them go 😡
Safety car only has fuel for 15 laps so it will end soon either way
Here we go...
at last
Button on inters.... !
Damnit
Come on Lewis!!!
Edit: get in!
Iffy there from Hamilton
Robot Rosbergs struggling with "too much oversteer". Thats because no ones telling you how to drive Nico!
Get in!
Great move!
And that is why Lewis is the better driver. Gap up to nearly 3 settings after a couple of laps after a sensational overtake.
Fluffed pitstop lookalike it could cost Button third. Bummer.
Yeah shame that.
Rosberg is a beaten man.
Lewis confirming that he is one of the all time great wet weather drivers. Monaco and Silverstone '08, Spa where he shouldn't have been penalised and on a completely different level to everyone else here.
All proper circuits to boot...
Full wet tires? See how JB gets on first.
Has Lewis changed his tyres? Has rosberg?
Boooooo
I don't think so. I saw their pit crew come out but haven't seen any stops.
Hope Sutil is okay, crash looked fairly tame.
Woo
What a weird race.
How many times did Lewis go off the circuit? He was so lucky there wasn't gravel traps at those points.
So it started behind a safety car, and finished early is it even worth watching?
So it started behind a safety car, and finished early is it even worth watching?
Yes, some great racing in the middle bit.
All very confused now - there was an incident with Sutil going off the track but there was then a secondary serious crash which no-one seems clear on. Same place, sounds like a car went into the truck that was recovering Sutil's car. All very chaotic and confused though.
Car hit the jcb? Hope he get out the med centre. Reminds me of the female tester who crashed.
Yep, sounds like it was Bianchi arriving at the scene of the Sutil crash and hitting a tractor according to twitter. Bianchi at medical centre and helicopter preparing to take him to hospital.
The messages from race control suggest that Bianchi has gone off at Turn 7. That’s Dunlop, where Sutil crashed, but we haven’t seen the Marussia on screen.
FIA press officer Matteo Bonciani has given a short statement about Bianchi’s condition:
“Driver is not conscious, he has been sent to the hospital by ambulance because the helicopter cannot go in these conditions. Further updates will follow – for the moment we cannot say anything. We will keep you updated as fast as we can.”
Star Sports reported that the young Bianchi critical and unconscious after Suzuka crash…more to follolw
Thoughts with Bianchi. Sounds very nasty and one of a drivers worst fears.
@JCL-poppycock
Not looking good at all, fingers crossed for Bianchi.
There's pics of the car on twitter. It looks like the cockpit area has gone underneath the back of the jcb. Horrendous if that's the case
Nick Heidfeld posted a pic of the Bianchi crash on twitter, then deleted it shortly after. Doesn't bode well imo.
Daily mail website has a lot of graphic photos. I fear some grave news coming
It almost looked like some car going on to the left of the picture when they showed the sutil accident scene before. Hoping for some good news but I fear it not be, given all the radio silence about the incident..... 🙁
I saw that trying to find updates. Looks like the car went in backwards into the rear of the tractor destroying the top air intake.
Apparently he is under going surgery
Twitter seems quite why didn't they stop the race
I'm waiting to find out what happened..